"During the meeting, [the sides] are expected to look at specific measures for further development of bilateral cooperation in trade, economic, investment, military technical, energy, aerospace, agro-industrial, science and cultural and humanitarian spheres," the statement said.
The officials will hold the seventh high-level Russian-Brazilian cooperation committee meeting on Wednesday in Moscow. Ministers from both countries will participate in the meeting also. After the meeting, Medvedev and Temer are expected to sign a joint statement.
Russia and Brazil are both members of the BRICS group of five major developing economies.
Moscow stepped up cooperation with Latin America and BRICS countries in light of deterioration in Russia’s relations with the West.
Russia and Brazil have boosted agricultural trade and are currently discussing cooperation in the sphere of nuclear energy.